Relationship of Level of Knowledge of Plywood Factory Employees about Dangers of Lung Disease Due to Work With use of Self Protection Tools

  • Bayu Azhar STIKes Payung Negeri Pekanbaru
  • Siti Siti Ramalia Universitas Riau
  • Veny Elita Universitas Riau
Keywords: personal protective equipment, knowledge, occupational lung disease

Abstract

The industrial sector becomes a job that requires a lot of  human resources, developing industries can give negative results such as air pollution by dust arising from industrial processing. This study discusses the level of knowledge of plywood factory employees about the dangers of occupational diseases with the use of personal protective equipment. This data collection uses questionnaires and collection sheets. The design of this study used a descriptive research design with the study "Cross sectional study". The study was conducted on 95 respondents at   Asia Citra Factory  in Tanjung Melawan Tanah Putih Subdistrict used  the cluster sampling technique. The analysis used was the Chi-square test. The results of this study indicate there is no relationship between the level of knowledge of plywood factory employees about the dangers of occupational diseases and the use of personal protective equipment (p value 0.91> 0.05).